Services
Quality Management (QMS) - Meet and exceed customer expectations
WHat we offer
Gap Assessments
Audits
Implementation
Maintenance
Why You SHould Care
Lack of quality management poses an ever-present threat to your business
Quality Management
Why should you care?
- Are you in constant firefighting mode to ship products?
- Do you seem to solve problems that keep reappearing?
- Do you lose market opportunities because you don’t have a quality system certification demanded by your customers?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, our Quality Management System (QMS) specialists can help!
Simply put, a robust QMS framework can empower you to streamline your processes in order to meet your customer’s quality, delivery and pricing expectations. In turn, you’ll improve your level customer satisfaction likely leading to more business.
WHy us
Our team of certified professionals waste no time getting you results
Quality Management
Why Ignition?
Our QMS team is led by certified QMS Lead Auditors, with credentials traceable to international bodies like Exemplar Global (formerly RAB-QSA) and Probitas. Our QMS expertise includes the following Standards:
- ISO 9001:2015 for general industry,
- IATF 16949:2016 for automotive industry,
- AS 9100 Rev D for aerospace and defense industry,
- ISO 13485:2016 & 21CFR Part 820 for medical devices industry,
- ISO 15378 Packaging Material
- 21CFR Part 210 and 211 for pharmaceutical industry,
- ISO 14001:2016 for Environmental Management Systems,
- ISO 17025:2017 for calibration and test laboratories, and
- Nadcap & CQI for special processes.
- ITAR/EAR Compliance
WHat we do for you
We develop, implement, maintain and
continually improve your QMS framework
Quality Management
What we can do for you
Our QMS team can help your organization develop, implement, maintain and continually improve a QMS framework with the following service lines:
- Perform initial or transition gap assessments,
- Provide implementation consulting & training
- Create of high-impact QMS documentation (quality manuals, procedures and forms),
- Perform sub-contracted internal audits & second party (supplier audits), and
- Facilitate third-party certification by helping with registrar selection and communications
Strategic Planning and Development - Reduce effect of uncertainty of objectives
WHat we offer
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
ERM maturity assessments
ERM framework
Governance
Organizational Development
Why You SHould Care
Reduce unpleasant business surprises while increasing positive ones.
Strategic Planning and Development
Why should you care?
- Every organization MUST take the time to align the top-level strategies with the operational processes that drive your business. Our leadership and growth specialists can help! Simply put, an effective Strategic Plan and Deployment model helps guide your organization through global uncertainties, changing customer needs, and prepares your team for growth!
- Today’s discussion involving risk management is more relevant than ever before, with internationally recognized Quality Management Systems (QMS) including ISO 9001:2015, AS 9100:2016 (Rev D), IATF 16949:2016 and ISO 13485:2016 requiring organizations to adopt a risk-based approach to their QMS. Start with a Strategic Plan, add consistent methodology, and watch your business tackle these challenges head on!
WHy us
We deliver superior ERM solutions because we are also experts in Quality Management System and Operations Excellence. We see the whole picture.
Strategic Planning and Development
Why Ignition?
Our strategic planning and deployment experts are uniquely qualified having achieved high levels of education and experience. Plus, they hold internationally recognized certifications, including Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), aiming to help your organization with developing, implementing, and maintaining an enterprise-wide risk management framework.
We have created an industry niche by blending our risk management strategies with an organization’s Quality Management System and Operations Excellence models. This integration, along with our significant industry experience, enhances transparency and results in responsible governance. Our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) expertise includes ISO 31000, COSO, and NIST 800-xx compliance frameworks.
WHat we do for you
Our consulting, auditing and training services can help you with all phases of your ERM program.
Strategic Planning and Development
What we can do for you
Through our consulting, auditing and training efforts, our operations strategic planning and deployment experts help clients navigate:
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Identification assessments and prioritization strategies
- Risk appetite establishment
- Response development/implementation
- Risk monitoring and reporting structures
- People Engagement
- Focus on human capital to facilitate change management
- Develop coaches and leaders for your organization to strengthen accountability
- Process Optimization
- Connect Strategic Planning and Deployment to your downstream operational excellence goals
- Technology Alignment
- Industry 4.0 modeling
- Information and Cyber Security systems support
Operational Excellence - Maximize operations efficiency
WHat we offer
Lean/Six Sigma
Industrial Engineering
Fiscal Turnaround
Why You SHould Care
Operational issues and inefficiencies drain resources and hold your business back.
Operational Excellence
Why should you care?
- Your product must be reworked, again!
- A tremendous amount of working capital is tied up in inventory.
- Jobs are taking more time and material than quoted.
- People look busy, but little work is getting done.
Do any of these problems sound familiar?
For many businesses, these very common issues occur every day. Unfortunately, customers don’t pay for waste. You do!
To eliminate this critical problem on a long-term and sustainable basis, it’s essential to embrace an Operations Excellence strategy that fits your business complexities. Once developed, a sound and well-planned strategy will need to be executed with discipline and commitment using proven tools like Lean/Six Sigma and data-driven industrial engineering models.
WHy us
Our OpEx experts are trained Industrial Engineers who are Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belts
Operational Excellence
Why Ignition?
With more than 20 years of experience in developing and implementing world-class operations excellence models, Ignition has the right set of skills to help you optimize operations. Led by a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, our OpEx experts are trained Industrial Engineers and Certified Lean/Six Sigma Black Belts.
We’ve helped many organizations maximize efficiencies and align day-to-day operations with their business strategies. We recognize change is difficult. That’s why we bring exceptional competence to change management, personalized coaching and conflict resolution models, and ensure stakeholder buy-in is an integral part of enterprise-wide changes.
Why is the Ignition team unique? We bring a blend of intellectual and emotional quotients that make it possible to achieve long-term sustained OpEx enterprise model.
WHat we do for you
We will maximize efficiency and align day-to-day operations to accomplish your business growth plans.
Operational Excellence
What we can do for you
Lean/Six Sigma
We help your business get the maximum benefit from Lean Six Sigma, a powerful blend of two approaches: lean manufacturing, which is aimed at reducing waste, and Six Sigma, which helps companies reduce errors. Together they help business reap the benefits of faster processes with lower cost and higher quality.
Our approach starts with a full assessment of your operations using Six Sigma methodology with added efficiency and speed from lean. We first gain an understanding a company's value stream, and then move rapidly to mapping out processes and costs. Next, we give you a clearly defined view "full potential" through bottleneck analysis and internal and external bench-marking. Our final step is to target improvement areas, and help you successfully implement result-generating changes.
Industrial Engineering Applications
Applied industrial engineering provides systematic approaches to streamline and improve business productivity and efficiency.We use our engineering expertise to tailor these approaches to your business needs so you can experience the following benefits:
- Leaner, more efficient and more profitable business practices while increasing customer service and quality.
- Improved efficiency, competitive advantage, profitability, and reduces resources costs.
- Improved productivity and elimination of waste
- Increased ability to do more with less.
- Make your operations safer, faster, easier, and more profitable.
- Guiding your business to have a more engaged workforce while improving your bottom-line.
- Showing ways to improve the working environment, improving efficiencies, and ergonomic standards.
- Reducing costs associated with new technology solutions.
Our tailored Industrial Engineering applications deliver the following benefits:
- Demand forecasting,
- Facility design/layout optimization,
- Inventory management systems,
- Human factors engineering,
- Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) and
- Aggregate/capacity planning strategies
Fiscal Turnaround
If your business is at risk, and continuing on the same path is no longer a fiscally viable option, we can help. Our turnaround expertise can help you maximize and solve your financial opportunities and challenges. Our team is dedicated to working with you to develop a specific turnaround plan to get you back on the right track. Let us create a turnaround plan for you based on our list of service for helping businesses revitalize their companies.
- Assessments of problems and development of alternative corrective action plans
- Business turnaround and planning
- Revenue and margin optimization
- Financial modeling and projections
- Cost reductions and downsizing/rightsizing
- Negotiations with lenders, creditors and customers
- Refinancing and capital acquisition
